Date: February 8, 1999Section: Shoestring MarketingLocation:Title: Use Your Database To Build RelationshipsAuthor: By Alf NuciforaDeck:Story:One of the few mise ...

Graph databases map relationships between entities in a network. They won’t replace conventional relational databases, but for harnessing the value of interconnectedness they mark a breakthrough ...

Here is a closer look at what graph databases are, why they’re unlike other databases, and what kinds of data problems they’re built to solve.

Database normalization is the cornerstone of database theory. Once a database is normalized, relationships between the data in multiple tables must be established.

An inherent awkwardness exists in every many-to-many relationship between entities. Ambiguity causes this persistent awkwardness, primarily because a many-to-many relationship is such a fuzzy thing.

In data discovery, encountering many-to-many relationships may actually expose a level of disregard about details by the subject matter experts. For example, if one must model parents and children, ...